Word: prefering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which came close, but not close enough, to the British Commonwealth-would only continue "our status of perpetual dependence, our status of indignity, our status of insubordination." When De Gaulle stopped off at Conakry on his swift tour of Africa before the referendum, Toure thundered in his presence: "We prefer poverty in liberty to riches in slavery." Angrily, De Gaulle canceled a diner intime he was to have had with Toure, and the split was final. A few weeks later, 95% of the people of Guinea voted no to the De Gaulle constitution...
...Lovers. "If we want to drive women off the streets, where would we prefer them to go?" asked Laborite Reginald Paget. He told of watching two girls in a doorway on Curzon Street who, in a two-hour period, took eleven men upstairs, with the average time per man being under 15 minutes. Paget had also noted a common factor in all the men: "Their sadness ... If we were to stop this business outright, we might be doing something which would.be pretty dangerous." Girls on the streets are a nuisance, he conceded, but he felt it was better than spreading...
...suggested that now was the "right TIME" to save on the purchase of TIME, because "Never before in history has the news been so urgent and thought-compelling, so packed with surprise and excitement as it is today.... As you probably already know," you wrote me, "college students prefer TIME to any other magazine. So do business leaders, statemen, up-and-coming young professional...
...book a different sort of motion picture during exam period," the press agent for the Brattle Theater disclosed. "We think students prefer escapism at this time." Last week the theatre presented a foreign gangster movie, Razzia...
Grand Tradition. Pianists Demus, 30, and Badura-Skoda, 31, met at Vienna's Academy of Music, started playing together purely for relaxation. Although they have made half a dozen recordings together (for Westminster), they still regard their four-hand playing as "amateur in the best sense," prefer to concentrate on their individual careers as soloists. Badura-Skoda specializes in Mozart ("I have the quicker fingers"), while Demus concentrates more on Schumann and the French repertory...